Using the right visuals (images) on a dashboard is very important. Icons are often used go guide users into the right direction, so we don’t want to confuse them with unclear images
[part of the ‘Datafam London 2024 – Deepcleaning your dashboard’ series]
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During my Datafam London presentation I briefly showed a slide with a screenshot of my RSS reader – my main source of inspiration on everything Tableau. Afterwards I have got several requests to share this list of website.
Every time I stumble upon an interesting blog (or website with a feed) I add it to my Feedly account.
For this post I have exported all these links, and I will update it regularly. If you want to share an interesting Tableau/Data/Data Visualization blog, please let me know and I will add (and follow) it!
(more…)A different way to make drill down possible/usable in a small sheet.
Sometimes you don’t have all the space to do what you want.
Or you are almost finished with a dashboard, and suddenly someone mentions: “Wouldn’t it be nice if we could drill down on this chart…” – but the sheet is just too small for another column. There are multiple ways so solve this issue – each with its own pros and cons. Viz-in tooltip (hard to read on larger drill-downs), hiding nearby sheets (tedious), enlarging the row-height (ugly when not drilled-down), misusing totals (even uglier), …
In this article I describe a different solution – which definitely has its disadvantages, but can be useful in certain situations where the drill down functionality is important.
(more…)Three easy to implement tips on BANs: the Big Ass Numbers you put on top of your dashboard.
BANs are a common and good way to display important figures. But while they are seemingly easy to implement, often they can be improved to make them more effective.
[part of the ‘Datafam London 2024 – Deepcleaning your dashboard’ series]
(more…)Line charts are one of the best and popular ways to show how data has developed over time. It’s a simple graph that is familiar to anyone, but the default generated can often be improved – either in Tableau, Excel or any other tool.
In this blog post I want to show how a relative small change in a line chart can result in a big improvement.
[part of the ‘Datafam London 2024 – Deepcleaning your dashboard’ series]
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On DataFam 2024 in London I gave a presentation / workshop on deep cleaning dashboards.
Dashboard cleaning is about: Removing, adding , re-arranging, and replacing stuff. In Tableau, it’s about: Table calculations, extra sheets, changing images, talking to users, being critical to yourself, … Is hard work – and a lot of fun!
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It’s my personal yearly end-of-December Christmas tradition: visualizing the Top 2000 hitlist of NPO Radio 2 (a Dutch national radio station).
(you can also view the interactive visualization on Tableau Public)
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You can use to create your own Christmas Movie Marathon in Tableau using this dashboard!
Based on the IMDB dataset ‘100 best Christmas movies of all time’ and some nice Tableau techniques you can determine which movies you want to watch this holiday.
Start by entering the time you can spend on movies this holiday on Step 1 (from a couple of hours to several days), and then use step 2 to select all the movies you want to see during this time.
Selections can be made on plot, but also runtime, genre and/or IMDB rating.
Ever wanted to count up or down in Tableau?
Now you can using the CountTo Viz Extension – for free!
Using this extension a dashboard will count up or down to a certain value.
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